Check out the Fox News chart above. Looks pretty clean and sweet, no? The numbers are accurate, it’s got a source line, plenty of detail, etc. So what could possibly be wrong with it?
As Media Matters for America notes,. pull back from the screen and focus only on the trend line, not on the numbers. See something off? As Media Matters' Zachary Pleat writes, "the 8.6 percent unemployment rate in November looks higher than March's 8.8 percent rate, and about the same as the 9 percent unemployment rate in October." Even though things are improving just slightly, the chart's message is that they're not.
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